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I'm a Concert Pianist. This Is Why I Seek Imperfection.
- mitchbob 11mo agohttps://archive.ph/2025.11.29-154655/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/opinion/pianist-music-performance-perfection.html https://archive.ph/2025.11.29-154655/https://www.nytimes.com...
- Rochus 11mo ago> Classical musicians are not trained to talk to God. We are trained not to make mistakes. That's a good slogan ;-) Consequently, the author seems to be very concerned with where, for example, Alfred Cortot made mistakes when playing Chopin's Preludes live. I am glad that, as a musician and pianist myself, I am not under the same enormous pressure as classical musicians, but can simply enjoy both my playing and my recordings and not care about mistakes.